An apparatus and method for flexible adjustment of the uplink-downlink ratio configuration for each enhanced node B (eNodeB) within a wireless communications network is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a given eNodeB is configured to determine a current or subsequent uplink-downlink ratio configuration for a pre-determined time period. The determined current or subsequent uplink-downlink ratio configuration is encoded into a special physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), the special PDCCH included in at least one radio frame according to the pre-determined time period. The radio frame including the special PDCCH is transmitted to user equipment served by the given eNodeB.

Suppression of serving cell transmissions directed to second-served UEs may improve channel estimation of a serving cell or a neighbor cell. This may include using scheduling information for second-served UEs to suppress serving cell signals intended for second-served UEs having overlapping MIMO transmissions. Alternatively, this scheduling information may aid in suppressing a serving cell signal for a second-served UE to improve channel estimation of a neighbor cell. Various embodiments described herein, include implementations and techniques to aid channel estimation, and signal scheduling information to a first-served UE to aid in suppression of serving cell signals for second-served UEs.

Opportunistic networking systems can utilize one or multiple bands/channels that are shared with other radio access technologies (RATs) (such as wireless local area networks (WLAN, such as Wi-Fi) and mmWave). An unconventional carrier type (UCT) can be defined to support opportunistic networking in licensed and/or unlicensed spectrum. For example, a primary base station can determine a secondary base station activated for use with user equipment (UE). The primary base station can schedule data to be sent to the UE via the secondary base station. The secondary base station can provide discovery information, reserve a wireless channel, transmit the data and/or release the channel (implicitly, explicitly, or by reservation).

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for handling transport block (“TB”) size mismatch during RACH procedure. One apparatus includes a transceiver that receives a random access response message from a Radio Access Network (“RAN”) entity, wherein the random access response message grants an uplink resource allocation to the apparatus. The apparatus includes a processor that determines a size mismatch between a stored TB and the uplink resource allocation, where the stored TB comprises at least one medium access control (“MAC”) protocol data subunit (“subPDU”). In response to determining that there is a size mismatch, the processor generates a new TB that matches the size of the uplink resource allocation, wherein generating the new TB comprises appending at least one MAC subPDU.

One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method whereby a device-to-device (D2D) terminal transmits a discovery signal in a wireless communication system, the discovery signal transmission method comprising the steps of: determining the size of a subperiod in a discovery period on the basis of a buffer size; and repeatedly transmitting the discovery signal in the subperiod corresponding to the determined size by using a hopping pattern applicable to the discovery period.

A method is presented for dedicating and allocating frequency channels to control and data frames in a WiFi local area network system. The method comprising dedicating a frequency channel in a frequency band, determining by a station the dedicated frequency channel, transmitting by the station a probe request frame in the dedicated frequency channel, receiving by the station a probe response frame in the dedicated frequency channel.

Disclosed is a method for wireless communication, including identifying a path loss and a size of a message that a user equipment will transmit after a transmission of a preamble, selecting a first preamble set from at least two preamble sets if the path loss is less than a first threshold and the size of the message is greater than a second threshold, selecting a preamble from the selected first preamble set if the first preamble set is selected, transmitting the selected preamble, and receiving a response message in response to the transmission of the selected preamble.

A terminal apparatus communicates with a base station apparatus using a plurality of downlink subbands and a plurality of uplink subbands. The terminal apparatus receives, in a downlink subband, response information for an uplink data transmitted in an uplink subband in accordance with setting information which is received from the base station apparatus and indicates a relationship between the uplink subband and the downlink subband used to receive the response information, where the uplink subband being one of the plurality of uplink subbands, and where the downlink subband being one of the plurality of downlink subbands.

Methods and apparatuses are described. A method of configuring a Radio Resource Control (RRC)_Connected wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for wireless local area network (WLAN) cell measurement includes receiving, by the WTRU, an RRCConnectionReconfiguration message. The RRCConnectionReconfiguration message includes a measurement configuration that includes at least one WLAN measurement object on which the WTRU is to perform measurement and at least one measurement reporting configuration including at least an indication that measurement reporting is to be at least one of periodic and event-triggered. At least one measurement is performed on the at least one WLAN measurement object. A measurement report is provided based on the at least one measurement reporting configuration.

A method and device for transmitting a service are disclosed. A terminal device receives position information of specific radio frames in a time unit, and position information of a specific subframe in each of the specific radio frames in the time unit from a base station. Every 2.sup.m radio frames in the time unit include one specific radio frame, the position information of the specific radio frames in the time unit comprises a value of a period of the specific radio frames in the time unit, and a length of the period is 2.sup.m radio frames, where m is a nonnegative integer. The terminal device receives the service carried in the specific subframe in one or more of the specific radio frames from the base station in accordance with the position information of the specific radio frames and the position information of the specific subframe.